Talent Acquisition Specialist

Bennett Adelson is a Cleveland based, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, with over two decades of Microsoft solution experience. We specialize in the design, architecture, and implementation of collaboration, IoT, and business intelligence solutions using Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, Office 365, Azure and PowerBI. Our company is passionate about technology and high customer standards. We are committed to becoming the go-to Microsoft consultancy for business and digital transformation. We offer thought leadership, deep technical skills, and an optimal mix of process and tools to solve complex business challenges.

In the role of Talent Acquisition Specialist at Bennett Adelson, you will take our mission to prospective technology candidates with a passion to help them visualize their professional and personal growth opportunities as a member of the Bennett Adelson team. You will serve as the point person on the Bennett Adelson team identifying candidates to bring into the interviewing process and coordinating with the appropriate internal team members to successfully advance qualified candidates through a smooth and well-coordinated process.

Bennett Adelson has established aggressive growth objectives and we are looking for a confident and self-reliant individual to provide high-performance recruiting.

Job Summary:

The Talent Acquisition Specialist responsibilities include utilizing recruiting tools and technology to source and identify highly qualified technical candidates based on written job specifications, conduct initial phone or Teams interviews, communicate qualified candidates that align to open position(s), and coordinate with the hiring manager(s) through the balance of the recruiting process. The goal is to optimize the sourcing of quality talent. The successful Talent Acquisition Specialist will develop and maintain on-going relationships with prospective candidates to generate referrals and future hires.

Job Duties:

• Establish direct applicant sources by leveraging industry organizations, industry contacts, social media, referrals, and internet sites.
• Communicate with prospective candidates: Bennett Adelson company information, open positions, detailed job requirements and technical
• qualifications.
• Build upon awareness of Bennett Adelson in the market and maintaining rapport with quality technology professionals.
• Determine high-level applicant qualifications by reviewing resumes (profiles; phone screening applicants; analyzing responses; verifying references; making recommendations to proceed (or not) by comparing qualifications to job requirements.
• Present qualified candidates to hiring manager(s), review initial phone screen notes and recommendations to proceed, coordinate schedules for hiring manager interviews, debrief both hiring manager and candidate to determine interest and fit.
• Increase job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Support and recruit diverse talent for a multi-practice organization.

Job Qualifications and Skills:

• Minimum of one year of staffing/recruiting/sourcing candidates.
• Experience sourcing candidates in the following IT arena is preferred but not required:
  • Infrastructure, Technical Architects
  • Data Analytics/Business Intelligence (BI)
  • Application Development & Architecture
  • Microsoft Azure, Office 365
  • User Experience/User Interface Consultants
  • Project/Program Managers
• Education Experience: 4-year degree preferred but not required.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Interpersonal - develops and maintain excellent working relationships
  • Oral Communication - expresses information to individuals or groups effectively, considers the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listening skills, and attends to nonverbal cues.
  • Problem Solving - Identifies potential problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to evaluate alternatives and makes recommendations.
  • Self-Management- Sets daily/weekly activities to meet well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.
  • Technical Competence – Uses or gains knowledge that is necessary to perform the major functions that are described above.
  • Customer Service - Delivers appropriate services in an accurate, complete, and timely fashion.
  • Teamwork/Collaboration- demonstrates skills and abilities in collaborative efforts on team/project-oriented activities.
• Possess a general understanding of the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle processes.
• Experience with mapping and sourcing resumes from different platforms.
• Strong skills related to use of social media (e.g., LinkedIn), current recruiting technology and websites.
• Proficient computer skills including the Microsoft Office and in-depth knowledge of data mining and internet research.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive base salary, performance bonus, plus benefits package